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Like an MCC Umpire I will hold a pitch inspection tonight, and take pictures.

Because, presumably, the veneers did not meet brilliantly well in the middle, and Aerolite was not wonderfully gap filling, so we have a fore and aft void space, bit like a ship's duct keel really, and equally nasty!

Makes me want to take the outer keel off after all.

I think I was picturing longer runs of rot than you have. Ed is quite right, for areas like that, there is enough land on the hog. (Are you sure it stops? - On Saskia the rot carried on further between hog and keel than it did in the open.) Oooh-err... :cry: The brass keel band had been "re-at...

Thanks; holes are sub-hand-sized. Absolutely no chance with the screws, of course. Ed is correct; the hog is wider than the keel. More photos tomorrow. Delay was due to wanting to get her really, really dry. The puzzle is working from two sides at once - I think that if I leave the keel in place I s...

I now have two regular shaped holes each side of the hog just aft of the centreboard case (which does not seem to have been affected at all). Before going further, I would very much like to know how the centreline is constructed at this point - I am assuming that the veneers are laid up over the hog...

Crikey, AG!

Cuban Mahogany is the stuff that American yachts of the Golden Age were planked with, in preference to teak - all those Herreshoff, S&S, Rhodes and Alden boats from yards like Herreshoff, Nevins, and such.

(sticks hand up and expresses interest!)

Agree with the AG.

Almost certainly built as a yacht tender; there are several designs around.

Wandering off the topic, my father said of his Prout that it looked so dangerous that it was perfectly safe!

I had two, and both were stolen!

Thanks Ed; the much discussed Family Holiday In Cornwall By Car may have to take place!

(for use when cruising in the boat - got a good wooden one, but if sleeping aboard one feels better with a metal plate lowered)

Just to say that if making a cotton sail one will need some small diameter four strand Italian Hemp.

I do know where to get that:

http://despawson.com/index.html

cvrda types will have no difficulty identifying the father of the Editor of "Yachts and Yachting"

Very weird; no thwart knees no breasthooks no quarter knees and certainly not enough ribs for the build date of 1941 which rules out glued ply as the construction medium. Looks as if they might have been part finished hulls ready for ribbing up which someone unfamilar with boatbuilding has tried to ...

Model sailcloth was also called union silk, no idea why. "Union material" was used for spinnakers, until nylon took over. A mixture of long staple cotton and silk. Horribly expensive, prone to mildew and fragile. Nylon replaced it almost instantly! There is a furnishing fabric called line...

I asked my friend Todd Bradshaw, an American sailmaker specialising in historic small craft, if I could post this and he has agreed: " Hi Andrew, Yes, the scoop on high quality cottons like Egyptian and Ventile is that the plants used to make them produce longer fibers than typical cotton has. ...

I saw a discussion on this on the Firefly forum and thought I would raise it here in a wider context. Michael Brigg recommends taking the rudder out and towing stern first with the painter under the horse. I wonder if this would work at sea? One would of course stuff the centreplate case top with sp...

I have been told, by a sailmaker, that cotton "ticking" is the best approximation to dinghy weight cotton sailcloth; in the best qualities it is tightly woven to stop the feathers and down poking out. He says that the best quality looks shiny when held to the light due to the closeness of ...